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FACADE VIDEO FESTIVAL PLOVDIV

A project by Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath in collaboration with the Goethe-institute Bulgaria

October 5 - 10, 2010 – every day from 8 to 10 PM.Plovdiv - Old town, Lapidarium (next to Balabanov´s house)

CompetitionThe Bulgarian city of Plovdiv will host for the very first time the international FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL starting on October the 5th, 2010. Exteriors in the picturesque part of the Old Town will be transformed into screens for video art in all its variety of forms.

More than 40 competition entries of emerging and advanced video art authors from over 25 countries all over the world were selected by an international jury: Bettina Steinbrügge, Berlin, a curator and critic; Sevdalina Kochevska, Plovdiv, an artist; Kalin Serapionov, Sofia, an artist; Krassimir Terziev, Sofia, an artist; Emil Mirazchiev, Plovdiv, an artist and the director of Art Today Association.

The festival will close with this year's FAÇADE VIDEOAWARD winner on October the 10th, 2010.

“To be or not to be – that is the question” is a quote of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays Hamlet. It will sound in 32 languages in the Small Basilica in Plovdiv on occasion of the International Mother Language Day marked on February 21.